School of Computer Science and Statistics
How do two people coordinate their movement, gaze, gestures and speech during a conversation, and what can these behaviours tell us about the social interaction taking place? In this open-ended project, the student will use Meta’s Seamless Interaction dataset, a large-scale multimodal dataset of face-to-face interactions containing processed body motion, facial behaviour, gaze, audio, speech … Read more
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is emerging as a powerful paradigm for building intelligent agents capable of operating in the physical world. Most existing MBRL algorithms assume that the environment is stationary, i.e., that its behaviour doesn’t change so that the learnt world model and the strategies than depend on it remain optimal over time. But … Read more
Human imagination allows people both to relive past events and to simulate future possibilities, in some sense, to see the world as it is not [1]. In fact, the ability to simulate events in our minds is also crucial to reliving past events allowing some elements of the event to be memorized and gaps to … Read more
An ideal bus route would offer highly predictable inter-bus arrival times to travellers, in particular, overcoming the well-known ‘bus bunching’ phenomenon – “I waited ages then three came together!”. There are many sources of variability in journey times such as traffic conditions, the impact of traffic lights, and interference between buses themselves, e.g., queueing at … Read more
Poor travel-time reliability (TTR) in our cities means that travel times for the same journey are both highly variable and unpredictable, and also gives rise to similar negative impacts on the environment and the economy as does traffic congestion. Being able to offer a high degree of TTR is therefore highly desirable for travellers and … Read more
The Research Ireland funded ClearWay1 project is investigating new models of road management is which each vehicle is allocated a so-called ‘slot’ in which to travel for the duration of its journey. Adherence to travelling in its allocated slot ensures congestion-free travel from source to destination for each vehicle (in the absence of unexpected events). … Read more
Parking in busy locations eg at large-scale events (such as concerts and mass-participation sporting events) or in shopping centres at busy times (eg during ‘Christmas shopping’) often results in traffic congestion in surrounding areas (see, for example, [1], for an extreme example!). This may arise due to vehicles searching for, entering, and leaving parking spaces … Read more
Poor travel-time reliability, meaning that travel times for the same journey are highly variable and unpredictable, gives rise to similar negative impacts on the environment and the economy as does traffic congestion. Moreover, being able to offer a high degree of travel-time reliability will facilitate the uptake of sustainable road transportation including future public, shared, … Read more
Mobility is the lifeblood of human connectedness and economic progress, and roads are a critical component of the transportation system for both people and goods. Unfortunately, roads are potentially vulnerable to medium- to long-term disruptions (ie, lasting hours to days) due to extreme weather, infrastructure failures, accidents, maintenance, and unexpected demand all resulting in high … Read more
In Virtual Reality, users typically expect their avatar to both look and move like them. But what happens when your virtual body responds to your actions while moving with the motion style of somebody else, or when your appearance is replaced by a highly realistic digital double of another person? In this project, the student … Read more